"BE GENTLE"
ACTRESS COUNSELS WOMEN "Keep your gentleness if you want to make the most of modern feminine freedom," counsels Lillian Gish, the actress. "Undoubtedly women's chief perplexity at the moment is what to do with their new independence in a confused society., I feel certain they will find the way out of their difficulties if they hold fast to the quality of tenderness no matter, how hard the going becomes. "Many women active in economic affairs have been criticised for cultivating a hard, forbidding exterior. This cold outside has been considered by some persons a betrayal of the finest feelings and expressions of women throughout the ages. My opinion is that the hard exterior does not go very deep, even when it seems to be impenetrable." Miss Gish added that she was sorry for the woman who did not have to work, either in the management of her home or in business. "One of the real tragedies of the times," she said, "is the spectacle of the woman with an over-abundance of money and nothing to do but haunt the bridge tables. "But on the whole women strike me as being shrewd, and most of therii seem to make intelligent use of their leisure, mastering the machinery of the new age rather than being mastered by it" •!
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 148, 25 June 1938, Page 19
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